Hi,
Ok solved my problem. Using methods shown here:
http://www.mattryall.net/blog/2008/07/jquery-filter-demo
Cheers,
Bryan Rasmussen
On Jan 28, 12:06 pm, pantagruel <rasmussen.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have something like the following (fragment but shows context):
>
> var currentActiveCommands = jQuery("#menudiv ul li.runnable").find
> ("a.c");
> var len = currentActiveCommands.length;
> var resulthtml = "";
> var field = document.getElementById("run_command");
> var currentidtoclick ="";
>
> var display = jQuery("#autocompletval");
> var incrementer = 0;
> if(which != 13){
> if(len > 2){
>
> var reg = new RegExp(field.value,"i");
> currentActiveCommands.each(function(i) {
> if(reg.test($(this).html()))
> {
>
> if(incrementer == 0){
>
> firstidinline = $(this).attr("id");
>
> //alert("i is less than 1" +
> currentidtoclick);
> }
> incrementer = incrementer + 1;
> currentidtoclick = $(this).attr("id");
> //alert(currentidtoclick);
>
> //note clicker function must be made cross-
> browser, IE uses fireEvent I use dispatchevent
> resulthtml = resulthtml + "<a href='#'
> onclick='clicker(\"" + currentidtoclick + "\")'>" + $(this).html() +
> "</a><br />"
> display.html(resulthtml);
> display.css("display", "block");
>
> // Add to body element
>
> }else{
>
> }
>
> });
>
> Anyway as can be seen what happens here is the data that needs to be
> queried is inside the document, currently hidden but could be
> displayed in some cases.
> When someone starts entering data in the input field it goes through
> this data and makes an autocomplete from the data in the document. The
> problem is that if data entered in the input field initially can match
> something in the document but then stops matching the previously
> possible matches are not removed from the display. What is the best
> way to handle this?
>
> Also should I perhaps do an initial read in of this data to some
> arrays and then do matches on the arrays? Or another suggestion?
